192 Books is a general interest bookstore in the Chelsea neighborhood featuring recent titles and past best-sellers, as well as selected rare and out-of-print books, on a variety of subjects, including literary fiction, art and photography,...
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Literary Places
This database of writerly destinations—places writers can visit for inspiration, to promote their writing, for research, and to discover community—includes historical sites, reading venues, literary collections, writing centers, and writers spaces. Save your selections to My P&W and populate a personal Google Map that can be used to plan reading tours and visits to literary meccas, or just to keep track of your favorite literary locales.
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Aeon Bookshop is an independent bookseller in Manhattan specializing in literature, art, philosophy, the occult, and music. The shop carries both used and new titles and is open Wednesday through Sunday, 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
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Alabaster Bookshop is the last of the secondhand bookstores that once lined Fourth Avenue. Just around the corner from the Strand, this bookshop is much smaller and more affordable, with trade paperbacks sold at half the cover price and two...
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A project of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, this bookshop focuses on books in French and English, with more than fourteen thousand contemporary and classic titles from thirty French-speaking countries. Throughout the year, Albertine...
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Argosy Book Store has been in business for eighty-nine years, making it New York City’s oldest independent book store. Now in its third generation of family ownership, Argosy has an extensive stock of antiquarian and out-of-print items. The store...
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B&B Rare Books specializes in eighteenth to twentieth-century American, British, and French literature, modern first editions, poetry, mystery and detective fiction, children's literature, and signed and inscribed books. After graduating from...
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This Barnes & Noble bookstore located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan features a wide selection of books and a café. It is open seven days a week: Monday through Thursday from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Friday and Saturday from 9:00 AM to 9:00...
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This Barnes & Noble bookstore is located in Downtown Brooklyn and features a wide selection of books and a toys and games department. This location is open seven days a week: Monday through Saturday from 9:00AM to 8:00PM, Sunday from 10:00AM...
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Open seven days a week, this location includes a café and has frequent events with authors, celebrities, and musicians. Along with a wide selection of books, there is also a department for toys and games as well as vinyl records.
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This Barnes & Noble bookstore is located in Union Square in Manhattan and its four floors include a wide selection of books as well as toys and games, vinyl records, a café, and a printer for print-on-demand books. This location hosts...
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This Barnes & Noble bookstore on the Upper East Side at 87th Street and Third Avenue opened in 2023 after a previous larger location in the same neighborhood closed. This intimate small shop is open seven days a week and hosts author events...
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Bauman Rare Books was first housed in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, then moved to Madison Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets in 2008. The shop has a constantly changing display of over four thousand books and documents in a wide range...
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Bluestockings Cooperative is a worker-owned community space and bookstore in the Lower East Side of Manhattan guided by the principles of abolition feminism, solidarity, and transformative justice practices. The store carries over 6,000 titles of...
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With the strong support of the Morningside Heights community and the faculty and administration of Columbia University, Book Culture is a true community bookstore. Founded in 1997, the store features new and classic fiction and nonfiction,...
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With the strong support of the Morningside Heights community and the faculty and administration of Columbia University, Book Culture is a true community bookstore. Founded in 1997, the store features new and classic fiction and nonfiction,...
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The BookMark Shoppe was originally located in Dyker Heights before moving to the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn. Owned and operated by Christine Freglette and Bina Valenzano, who have been friends since junior high school, this independent...
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Located in Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, the second location of Books Are Magic opened in 2022. Owned by Emma Straub and Michael Fusco-Straub, the independent community bookstore sells a variety of books, including best-...
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Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, is owned by author Emma Straub and her husband Michael Fusco-Straub. The bookstore sells everything from best-sellers to a wide selection of kids’ books to...
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Books of Wonder opened on September 2, 1980, as a bookshop specializing in antique children’s books. Today, the shop stocks new titles as well as beloved classics and still has a large selection of old, rare, and collectible children's books....
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Burnt Books is a bookshop located inside a bodega called Green Discount in the neighborhood of Greenpoint in Brooklyn, New York. It specializes in second-hand sci-fi, mystery, art, design, politics, and books about New York.
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Cafe con Libros is an intersectional feminist bookstore welcoming of all who stand with and on behalf of the full human rights of womxn and girls. Located in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, this bookstore and café hosts a regular...
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Chartwell is a bookstore in the classic tradition. Since 1983 they have been selling rare and out-of-print Winston Churchill books, as well as books on the military, motor cars, baseball, photography, jazz, classic fiction, and nonfiction. The...
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Codex is an independent bookstore located in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Opened in January 2018, Codex sells new and gently used books with a focus on literary fiction, art, cinema, and philosophy. The shop also hosts book...
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Community Bookstore is an independent bookstore that has served the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, since its establishment in 1971. They are known for their well-curated shelves, garden, and local bookstore cat. The store also...
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In addition to Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea, Dia maintains and operates a constellation of commissions, long-term installations, site-specific projects, and Land art, nationally and internationally. Building on more than 35...
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